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Pagina 5
... very name of the white man's canoe , reminding me of Charlevoix and Canadian Voyageurs . The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe and the boat , a fur- trader's boat . The ferry here took us past the Indian island . KTAADN 5.
... very name of the white man's canoe , reminding me of Charlevoix and Canadian Voyageurs . The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe and the boat , a fur- trader's boat . The ferry here took us past the Indian island . KTAADN 5.
Pagina 6
... took us past the Indian island . As we left the shore , I observed a short , shabby , washerwoman - looking Indian — they commonly have the woebegone look of the girl that cried for spilt milk , -just from " up river , " -land on the ...
... took us past the Indian island . As we left the shore , I observed a short , shabby , washerwoman - looking Indian — they commonly have the woebegone look of the girl that cried for spilt milk , -just from " up river , " -land on the ...
Pagina 27
... took us across in his batteau . This clearing was bounded ab- ruptly , on all sides but the river , by the naked stems of the forest , as if you were to cut only a few feet square in the midst of a thousand acres of mowing , and set ...
... took us across in his batteau . This clearing was bounded ab- ruptly , on all sides but the river , by the naked stems of the forest , as if you were to cut only a few feet square in the midst of a thousand acres of mowing , and set ...
Pagina 31
... took it up first , and she taught the pup , and now they had got it into their heads that it wouldn't do to have anything of the bird kind on the premises . " A hawk hovering over was not allowed to alight , but barked off by the dogs ...
... took it up first , and she taught the pup , and now they had got it into their heads that it wouldn't do to have anything of the bird kind on the premises . " A hawk hovering over was not allowed to alight , but barked off by the dogs ...
Pagina 32
... took down a tract from the shelf . There was the " Wandering Jew , " cheap edi- tion , and fine print , the " Criminal Calendar , " and " Parish's Geography , " and flash novels two or three . Under the pressure of circum- stances , we ...
... took down a tract from the shelf . There was the " Wandering Jew , " cheap edi- tion , and fine print , the " Criminal Calendar , " and " Parish's Geography , " and flash novels two or three . Under the pressure of circum- stances , we ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 22 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre...
Pagina 336 - John's, and to and round the falls of the said river, either by boats, rafts, or other conveyance ; that when within the province of New Brunswick, the said produce shall be dealt with as if it were the produce of the said province ; that, in like manner, the inhabitants of the territory of the upper St.
Pagina 95 - Think of our life in nature,— daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it,— rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! the solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? where are we?
Pagina 108 - Such is the home of the moose, the bear, the caribou, the wolf, the beaver, and the Indian. Who shall describe the inexpressible tenderness and immortal life of the grim forest, where Nature, though it be mid-winter, is ever in her spring, where the moss-grown and decaying trees are not old, but seem to enjoy a perpetual youth; and blissful, innocent Nature, like a serene infant, is too happy to make a noise, except by a few tinkling, lisping birds and trickling rills ? What a place to live, what...
Pagina 75 - ... of logs and rocks, —and you could cross it by this means almost anywhere, — we struck at once for the highest peak, over a mile or more of comparatively open land, still very gradually ascending the while. Here it fell to my lot, as the oldest mountain-climber, to take the lead. So, scanning the woody side of the mountain, •which lay still at an indefinite distance, stretched out some seven or eight miles in length before us, we determined to steer directly for the base of the highest peak,...
Pagina 94 - Earth, as it was made forever and ever, — to be the dwelling of man, we say, — so Nature made it, and man may use it if he can. Man was not to be associated with it. It was Matter, vast, terrific, — not his Mother Earth that we have heard of, not for him to tread on, or be buried in, — no, it were being too familiar even to let his bones lie there, — the home, this, of Necessity and Fate.
Pagina 295 - These, then, according to her interpretation of the treaty of '83, were the "highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean.
Pagina 93 - Perhaps I most fully realized that this was primeval, untamed, and forever untamable Nature, or whatever else men call it, while coming down this part of the mountain It is difficult to conceive of a region uninhabited by man.
Pagina 71 - ... that these jewels should have swam away in that Aboljacknagesic water for so long, so many dark ages; — these bright fluviatile flowers, seen of Indians only, made beautiful, the Lord only knows why, to swim there ! I could understand better for this, the truth of mythology, the fables of Proteus, and all those beautiful sea-monsters, — how all history, indeed, put to a terrestrial use, is mere history ; but put to a celestial, is mythology always.
Pagina 129 - We had not gone far before I was startled by seeing what I thought was an Indian encampment, covered with a red flag, on the bank, and exclaimed, " Camp ! " to my comrades. I was slow to discover that it was a red maple changed by the frost.